“We just wanted to get out, keep moving and get away from the big crowds because the first thing that went into my head was ‘is there a second device and are we running into it?’.

“We didn’t know when the bang went off I was waiting to hear gunshots because we didn’t know if there was going to be a follow on, would we be ducking and diving.

“So when we got out we kept going away from the arena.

“We knew we had to get away from the crowds and I said we will take some of the laneways because we didn’t know if we were going to walk into another bomb situation. We just didn’t know what was going to happen.